Troum
News August 2011:
This
extremely limited 7inch picture disc vinyl (179 copies in total)
is luxuriously encased in a transparent water-proof plastic sea
& sand die-cut printed liquid-gel pack printed gatefold
sleeve.
Yes each copy is expensive - but it is still being sold
below cost (Equation is losing money on each copy). The oceanic
sleeve and record - inspired, conceptualized and designed by renowned
graphic artist Alan McClelland (a/k/a ::: eye.lyft ::: blogspot
here) is a testament to water, waves, oceans, rivers and
seas.
Dive in
... glistening blue enveloping aqua...
... the sea is substance - livid and lustrous and beautiful ...
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No
Twitter >> No Facebook >> No Google+ >> No MySpace
>> No Digital Downloads >> No fancy high-tech-gizmos
or gimmicks.
Instead, we offer an old-fashioned physical, tactile, recorded
artifact: a nautical single by Troum.
An elemental vinyl offering to a primordial ocean from whence
we all originally came where we will all eventually return.
In "Saiws (an old Gothic Germanic word for sea)
Troum manages to conjour images of the vastness and depths of
the oceans, and unveils a treasure for our ears and minds.

From
Troum themselves...
BLUE MANDALAS & OCEAN WAVES!
Picture-disc with unique "organic" object-cover
designed by Eye.Lift: a printed gatefold "Sea & Sand"
sleeve-bag filled with blue gel & blinking "sand"
creating psychedelic, waving effects; on the record two tracks
of nautical guitar drone-muzak, a soundtrack for oceanic imaginations,
for standing at the sea; this is probably the most beautiful TROUM
artifact
that was ever released!
Equation
Records Release Information
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Troum
News March 2011:
| TROUM
shows coming up this spring 2011 throughout Europe!
March 26, Sa: DRESDEN, Germany. AZ Conni
www.azconni.de
with DRONAEMENT April 30, Sa: SAN DONA DI
PIAVE (near VENICE), Italy. Revolver Club. "Congresse
Postindustriale VIII"-Festival with K11, PETER
ANDERSSON (RAISON D'ETRE, DJINN, MUERAN HUMANOS). See
www.oldeuropacafe.com
for details. May 12, Th: ATHENS, Greece. Six
D.O.G.S. http://sixdogs.gr/
"We Dream in Colour"-Concert Series. For this
series, 7 bands perform in 7 months and release 7 x
7" vinyls in 7 different colours of the rainbow!
for details contact: princeofpoverty72@yahoo.com
May 21, Sa.: GENT, Belgium. locality t.b.a. SILKEN
TOFU-Festival (2 days, diverse acts) www.silkentofu.org
for details: wim@silkentofu.org
June 4, Sa.: KIEV, Ukraine. Prime Club. With FILIVS
MACROCOSMI. for details: arcto.promo.russia@gmail.com |
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RELEASES: TROUM - Mare Idiophonika ("The Self-Playing
Ocean") CD The new Troum album "MARE
IDIOPHONIKA" is out now on CD, released in an European
version by SILKEN TOFU and in a North-American version
by TOURETTE Records, both are limited to 500 copies
(different artwork, same audio material).
MARE
IDIOPHONIKA works as a dedication to imaginable self-organized
aural systems, using singing-bowls and "dry"
beats for the very first time. Ingredients: bass, guitars,
pulses, singing-bowls, metal-objects, voices & choirs.

TROUM
& NADJA - DOMINIUM VISURGIS LP The prolific
German label DENOVALI Records has released a limited
vinyl version of this album, out some months before
as CD on Transgredient; the vinyl version is limited
to 500 and comes in three different vinyl colours, with
thick printed sleeves & inner sleeves, and on 180gr
vinyl. mail us or the label direct if you
want to order: troum@dronerecords.de
Denovali Records (shop): www.denovali.com
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Troum
News May 2010:
 NADJA
& TROUM "Dominium Visurgis" 8-PANEL
DIGIPACK w. METALLIC COPPER PRINT | TRANSGREDIENT
RECORDS TR-07 DESCRIPTION: This is something
you could call a "dreamlike liaison".
When the
Canadian "avant metal / drone doom"-duo NADJA (who name
TROUM as one of their early influences) and the German
post-industrial / experimental drone pioneers TROUM
(years ago active as MAEROR TRI who are still discovered
by many drone-fans these days) combine their exceptional
styles, they form something even vaster as usually known
from them.
These three long collaboration tracks
were recorded as a result of a spontaneous improvisation
in April 2008 "live in the studio" near the Weser-river
in Bremen, Germany, and suck you in with their powerful
& emotional drone melancholy that works in many micro-&
macrocosmic ways, using electric & acoustic guitars,
bass, accordeon, drum-machine & voice.
| REVIEW:
"In dieser ersten Zusammenarbeit von Troum (Baraka[H]
+ Glit[s]ch) aus Deutschland und Nadja (Leah Buckareff
+ Aidan Baker) aus Kanada schaffen beide Bands etwas,
dass vielen derartigen Kollaborationen eben nicht gelingt:
den eigenen Stil beizubehalten und gleichzeitig offen
zu sein, zentrale Elemente des musikalischen Partners
gleichberechtigt einzubinden und eine echte Mischung
entstehen zu lassen.
Sei es aus dem Wissen darum,
dass dies nur in einer direkten Konfrontation geht,
sei es aus anderen Gründen und allein der glückliche
Zufall hat es bewirkt, Troum und Nadja haben mit "Dominium
Visurgis" keine e-mail Zusammenarbeit auf CD gebannt,
sondern sich tatsächlich im Studio getroffen und die
vorliegenden drei Stücke in enger Zusammenarbeit komponiert
und aufgenommen.
Denn nur die dann entstehende
derartig intensive Interaktion (und eigentlich: die
daraus resultierende gegenseitige Inspiration) lässt
eine Atmosphäre entstehen, die noch über die eigentliche
Musik hinauszustrahlen scheint, den Wirkungskreis der
Musik erweitert. Bei aller Qualität, die die VÖs beider
Bands sonst haben, "Dominium Visurgis" ist etwas besonderes.
[Hellmut Neidhardt aka "N", Unruhr]
TRACKLISTING:
01. Dominium Visurgis Pt. 1 02. Dominium Visurgis Pt.
2 03. Dominium Visurgis Pt. 3 |
Troum
News November 2009:
 | New
Releases: TROUM - SIGQAN CD Transgredient Records
TR-06
Re-issue
of the long deleted album from 2003 (Desolation House),
comes with new artwork featuring UV-high gloss spots,
designed by Alan McClelland.

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Dear
Troumsters, finally our new album has seen the daylight!
EALD-GE-STREON is a collection of various tracks
mainly coming from analogue 8-track-sources and used
for several live-programmes through the last years,
all re-worked and re-mastered.
It features a
powerful cover-version of SAVAGE REPUBLICs classic "Procession",
and has a stunning artwork with rarely used and difficult
to print metallic colours designed by STEPHEN O'MALLEY
- SUNN 0))). The first 500 copies have a bonus CD
with the epic track ABHIJNA. | Troum
News May 2009:
 | TROUM
- "EALD-GE-STRÉON" CD Beta-lactam
Ring Records mt183 www.blrrecords.com first
500 copies w. bonus CD "Abhijna" "Design,
layout and artwork by Stephen O'Malley".
Welcome to the Thunderdome. Troum’s bone-cracking reverberations
respirate with such ferocity that all non-Troum molecules
are blown away. Eald-Ge-Streon is a massive, rising
beauty. It is a great becoming, and we are nothing but
an ant in the afterbirth.
Troum has set its
controls beyond the heart of the Sunn. The pulsating
inferno of these 7 drone concertos may require an insurance
adjuster, but what a lovely way to burn. It is in your
nature to do one thing correctly. Before Troum, you
rightly tremble. But fear is not what you owe Troum.
You owe Troum awe!" |
LIVE
ACTIVITIES! Some Troum-shows coming up in Germany and
France. 
TROUM
will perform a brand new live-programme with a strong
ritualistic & dark chamber music influence using
ethnic instruments like a bugle, an Arabian flute and
a didgeridoo, with new visuals made by BarakaH! | June
1, Mo: LEIPZIG: Wave-Gotik-Meeting; at the special
"industrial/dark ambient" night at the Volkspalast/Kuppelhalle
with HERBST 9, PHELIOS, CIRCULAR and BRACHIAL PALSY.
www.wave-gotik-treffen.de
June
4, Th: PARIS: Instants Chavires; With SMALL CRUEL
PARTY! www.instantschavires.com June
5, Fr: BORDEAUX: L'Heretic; With ALTAIR TEMPLE. www.hereticclub.com June
6, Sa: LYON: Le Sonic; With NADJA and THISQUIETARMY. www.myspace.com/soniclyon June
12, Fr: HAMBURG: Markthalle; With NADJA, THISQUIETARMY
and ALLSEITS. www.markthalle-hamburg.de |
Troum
News March 2009: | THE
DANGERS, a short film by Australian film-maker SIOUXZI
MERNAGH which uses solely Troum-music as soundtrack
will be premiere screened at the ICI in Berlin on April
7, 2009. http://uncanny.ici-berlin.org
TROUM will perform at the CoC Art Festival
in Torun, Poland, on Friday 27. March 2009 www.myspace.com/cocartmusicfestival
The release of our new album EALD-GE-STREON
on Beta-lactam Ring Records is further delayed, but
the doCD-version should be available early April!
www.blrrecords.com

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